Earlier this month, the Essex County Board of Supervisors repeated a common, woeful refrain as it passed a resolution calling on the state to not close prisons in the North Country.
“The County of Essex has during the past 50 years experienced a sharp and extreme loss in industry due to ...

SARANAC LAKE — Around 100 turned out for a climate change symposium at the First Presbyterian Church of Saranac Lake, where the issue was discussed at the national, community and individual levels.
Titled “Climate Action: What are we doing about climate change?,” the symposium was ...

BEEKMANTOWN — During a 90-minute question-and-answer session Friday morning, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik discussed a wide range of issues, from farming to climate change to whether President Donald Trump should reveal his tax returns.
The Republican from Schuylerville pledged to the ...

BEEKMANTOWN — Congresswoman Elise Stefanik says the Mueller report shows some startling information about Russian involvement in American elections and changes need to be made.
“I don’t think there was an understanding of the breadth and depth of just how much Russia was trying to ...

GLENS FALLS — Some people may think it’s too early to start campaigning for an election still 18 months away, but Tedra Cobb said she wants to make sure she meets as many people as she can in the 17,000-square-mile NY-21 Congressional District.
Cobb, a Democrat, on Monday officially ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha is asking State Supreme Court to invalidate the designating petitions of Kari Ratliff, his opponent as he seeks re-election.
Both are Republicans, and Provoncha, the incumbent, is seeking to have Ratliff removed from the ballot for ...

Assemblyman Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, declared victory after Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week signed an executive order to extend free tuition and room and board at SUNY and CUNY schools to students who had a parent die in the military.
The Assembly held in committee legislation that would ...

SARANAC LAKE — Interior and exterior improvements are planned at BluSeed Studios to complement its Downtown Revitalization Initiative project for a new elevator.
“We thought it was a little further down the road, but this was a great opportunity,” said Kathy Recchia, BluSeed’s ...

ALBANY (AP) — New York prison inmates would be eligible for parole once they reach 55 after serving 15 consecutive years under legislation being considered by the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.
While the measure introduced in the Senate by Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, ...

LAKE PLACID — The Hurley Bros Inc. proposal to install a 36,000-gallon propane storage-filling station on Old Military Road has been met with plenty of negative reactions from residents in that neighborhood.
About 40 concerned, some furious, locals showed up to the North Elba Joint ...

SARANAC LAKE — After two budget work sessions, the village has crafted a tentative budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year, raising the tax levy by 2% to $3,819,736 — right on the tax cap.
The village will host a public hearing on the budget at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 in the village ...

PLATTSBURGH — North Country state lawmakers are pleased to see the approval of Gold Star Education funding for families of veterans who died in service of the nation.
The legislation provides for free college tuition and room and board to dependents of military veterans who died in ...

SARANAC LAKE — To anyone who’s been paying attention lately, climate change can seem to be an overwhelming, even insurmountable, problem. Yet, countless government entities, nonprofit organizations and individual citizens across the globe are moving with urgency to address this ...

SARANAC LAKE — The village Board of Trustees has agreed to move forward with two of the three projects concerning the renovation and expansion of its building at 3 Main St., totaling around $1 million, according to early design estimates.
The trustees agreed at a Thursday work session to ...

TUPPER LAKE — The Tupper Lake town board decided to hire a diver to inspect the Setting Pole Dam gate, which has been “sticky” lately at its Thursday meeting.
The board was also complimented by Tupper Lake Free Press Publisher Dan McClelland during the meeting’s public comment ...

ALBANY — A coalition of nearly 100 environmental groups is calling for 15 words to be added to the state constitution that would enshrine the right to clean air and water.
A pair of bills in the state senate and assembly would call for the state constitution’s Article 1 to be amended to ...

SARANAC LAKE — A village-sponsored Downtown Revitalization Project would connect Depot Street to Cedar Street, if funded and approved by the state.
The project would add an estimated 1,570 feet of new roadway onto Depot Street, which currently terminates by the former Branch & ...

SARANAC LAKE — At Monday night’s village board meeting, a union representative for the village Department of Public Works asked that a trustee sit in on wage negotiations, but the request was denied.
Negotiations between the village and the Teamsters Local 687 for a new contract are at ...

The Adirondack Council and other groups said Monday that they want the state to pass stricter laws around all-terrain vehicle use in the Adirondack Park, but some think the call is unnecessary.
The council believes ATV use is harming the park and puts people’s safety at risk. In a report ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Department of Environmental Conservation has found that the village has not kept the standard in the engineering control of one of the two properties known as 400 Broadway.
During the DEC’s periodic assessment of the property, it found the village’s application of ...